Last week, Waitman Wade Beorn, Louis and Francis Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at UNO, was named this year’s recipient of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize. The prize is given out each year to an author’s first book or manuscript that is judged as outstanding in content, style and mode of presentation.

The award is named in honor of the former director of the Harvard University Press from 1947 to 1967.

Beorn’s book, fully titled “Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus,” looks specifically at the myth that the German army, or Wehrmacht, played no significant part in the Holocaust. Beorn utilizes archival records, survivor testimonies and eyewitness interviews to help build his argument.

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